Fantasy football players, rejoice! The Detroit Lions are going to let Jahmyr Gibbs run free in 2026.<\/p>\n
During his press conference ahead of Detroit\u2019s sixth OTA practice, coach Dan Campbell revealed that they plan on Gibbs being their \u201cbell cow\u201d back this upcoming season.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to be our bell cow now. He really became more of that last year, but we\u2019re going to hang our hat on him quite a bit,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do a lot of things we feel like he does well. Now, I\u2019ve mentioned this before. He can run everything that we\u2019ve got. He can run every scheme that anybody\u2019s ever run. He\u2019s not just an outside runner. He is not just a space runner. He can create his own space in the middle. And some of his biggest runs have been gap scheme right down the pipe where he\u2019s had patience and found it and guys blocked it up well. So, we\u2019re going to ask a lot of him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last year, Gibbs set a career-high with 320 touches (243 rushes, 77 catches), played the most snaps of his three-year career (737), and earned his third straight Pro Bowl trip. With the Lions trading away David Montgomery this offseason after the veteran back requested a trade to a team that could give him a bigger role, the path is cleared for Gibbs to take another step. And the fourth-year back does not seem fazed by the task ahead of him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not nothing I\u2019m not used to,\u201d Gibbs said. \u201cGrowing up I\u2019ve always been the person that\u2019s always had the most carries and stuff like that. I\u2019m not looking at in any different (way) from any other year.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for where he can grow in this offseason in 2026, Gibbs said his game just needs to be more consistent on a week-to-week basis.<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll also have the help of new offensive coordinator Drew Petzing to forge a more impactful role for him in 2026. As for what that increased role will look like, that depends on what this team does well over the next few months before the season begins.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of it\u2019s going to be dictated by what we\u2019re good at as a unit,\u201d Petzing said of Gibbs\u2019 role in 2026. \u201cWhere are we the best, where are we the most effective? Who are we playing and how do we utilize his skillset to build on that?<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, he does so many things at a high level that I don\u2019t think there\u2019s necessarily a ceiling or a cap on what that could look like, but I think that\u2019s going to be dictated a lot by the people around them and how the pieces all fit together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Obviously, Gibbs won\u2019t be completely alone. The Lions did sign Isiah Pacheco this offseason to help take some of Montgomery\u2019s role. And Gibbs has come away impressed with the former Chiefs seventh-round pick.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of juice. He\u2019s very energetic,\u201d Gibbs said. \u201cHe\u2019s a fun person to be around. He plays really hard. He wants to do anything for the team that Dan calls him to do. He\u2019ll do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fantasy football players, rejoice! The Detroit Lions are going to let Jahmyr Gibbs run free in 2026. During…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[291781,4992,39966,4993,2130,349,99],"class_list":["post-685245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-detroit-lions-otas","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-detroit-lions-preseason","tag-detroit-lions-quotes","tag-detroit-lions-training-camp","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}